August 4, 2008
Anne Elliot has an arrogant father and two sisters who treat her like a scullery maid. More interestingly, she has an old flame, Captain Wentworth, who is now wealthy and will barely speak three words to her. Anne is probably in my top two favourite Austen heroines. She is sensible but her sensibilities are not cloying, and her suffering is intimately shared. Captain Wentworth is as dashing, cruel and agitated a lover as Darcy. Another ‘seemingly unrequited love’ story–I could drink this stuff up with a straw.
Comments (2)
Leila | 18th Mar 09 | 11:36 am |
Have you seen any of the film versions of this novel? I find they miss the point a bit, or maybe the characters don’t translate to the screen very well.
estelle | 18th Mar 09 | 2:52 pm |
Leila — I have to confess I saw both the 1995 film and the 2007 BBC adaptation before I read the book, so I am poorly placed to detach the films from the book. I think that the 2007 film does a magnificent job of emphasising the resignation, loss and strong character of Anne Elliott, but I was also surprised, when I read the book, to find how much more complex the original plot was.